List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1942–1946)

The BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs invites celebrities to become "castaways" and choose eight pieces of music that they would take to an imaginary desert island, where they will be marooned indefinitely. During the period listed here, the later rule allowing castaways a book and a luxury item had not yet been introduced and as such, choices have not been listed.

Jack Hylton was one of the first celebrities to be cast away.

1942

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Date Castaway Book Luxury
29 January 1942 Vic Oliver No book No item
5 February 1942 James Agate No book No item
12 February 1942 Commander A B Campbell No book No item
19 February 1942 C B Cochran No book No item
26 February 1942 Pat Kirkwood No book Gardenia bush
5 March 1942 Jack Hylton No book No item
12 March 1942 Captain A E Dingle No book No item
19 March 1942 Joan Jay No book No item
26 March 1942 Reverend Canon W H Elliott No book No item
2 April 1942 Arthur Askey No book No item
9 April 1942 Eva Turner No book No item
16 April 1942 Harry Parry No book No item
23 April 1942 Tom Webster No book No item
30 April 1942 Ivor Novello No book No item
7 May 1942 Roy Plomley No book No item
9 July 1942 Beatrice Lillie No book No item
23 July 1942 Leslie Howard No book No item
6 August 1942 Nathaniel Gubbins No book No item
20 August 1942 Barrington Dalby No book No item
10 September 1942 Emlyn Williams No book No item
17 September 1942 Lord Elton No book No item
25 September 1942 Richard Tauber No book No item
9 October 1942 Jonah Barrington No book No item
24 October 1942 Michael Powell No book No item
3 December 1942 Admiral Sir Edward Evans No book No item

1943

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Date Castaway Book Luxury
20 March 1943 Donald McCullough No book No item
12 April 1943 Ian Hay No book No item
8 June 1943 Tom Driberg No book No item
19 June 1943 Frank Swinnerton No book No item
26 June 1943 Beverley Baxter No book No item
16 July 1943 Herbert Hodge No book No item
26 July 1943 C. A. Lejeune No book No item
16 August 1943 Ivor Brown No book No item
2 October 1943 Tom Harrisson No book No item
5 October 1943 Lady Eleanor Smith No book No item
11 October 1943 Sir Stephen Tallents No book No item
16 November 1943 C. H. Middleton No book No item
23 November 1943 J. B. Morton No book No item
31 December 1943 Charles Hill No book No item

1944

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Date Castaway Book Luxury
8 January 1944 Alan Dent No book No item
29 January 1944 Pamela Frankau No book No item
12 February 1944 Ralph Reader No book No item
19 February 1944 Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC DSO DFC No book No item
20 March 1944 Mabel Constanduros No book No item

1945

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Date Castaway Book Luxury
4 August 1945 Frederick Grisewood No book No item
11 August 1945 Peter Fettes No book No item
18 August 1945 Jill Balcon No book No item
25 August 1945 Michael Harrison No book No item
1 September 1945 Joan Edgar No book No item
8 September 1945 Roy Williams No book No item
15 September 1945 Alvar Lidell No book No item
22 September 1945 Pat Butler No book No item
29 September 1945 Margaret Hubble No book No item
6 October 1945 Michael Redgrave No book No item
13 October 1945 Claire Luce No book No item
20 October 1945 C. E. M. Joad No book No item
27 October 1945 Celia Johnson No book No item
3 November 1945 Valerie Hobson No book No item
10 November 1945 Bobby Howes No book No item
17 November 1945 Deborah Kerr No book No item
24 November 1945 Henry Wheeler No book No item
1 December 1945 Eileen Joyce No book No item
8 December 1945 Stewart Granger No book No item
15 December 1945 Richard Goolden No book No item
22 December 1945 Nova Pilbeam No book No item
29 December 1945 Sonia Dresdel No book No item

1946

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Date Castaway Book Luxury
5 January 1946 Barbara Mullen No book No item

References

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  • Plomley, Roy (3 May 1984). Desert Island Lists (1984 ed.). Hutchinson & Co. ISBN 0-09-151761-3.